【VOA常速听力】Certification and Sanctions for Iran

While the Trump administration reviews U.S. policy toward Iran, the United States will continue to counter Iran's malign activities and hold Iran strictly accountable to the requirements of the nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA.

The U.S. State Department recently certified to Congress that the conditions of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act related to the JCPOA, are met as of July 17, 2017. This means the United States continues to waive sanctions as required to implement U.S. sanctions-lifting commitments under the deal.

But, as State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert said, the United States considers Iran in default of the spirit of the nuclear agreement in important ways:

“Part of what the JCPOA agreement says is [Iran] is supposed to contribute to regional and international peace and security, and we believe that some of the actions that the Iranian Government has been involved with undermine that stated goal.”

Iran's destabilizing actions include ballistic missile development and proliferation and much more: